hatchback

IHS Automotive predicts that sales of hatchback vehicles will increase by more than a third over the next few years. The hatchback is the largest selling body style in European, but presently account for less than 5% of US light vehicle sales.

Volvo has unveiled two concept cars that may point the way to what its redesigned 40 series small cars will look like when they go into production next year. A battery car and a plug-in hybrid are planned.

The big news last week was the return of Detroit Electric, which is launching later on this year with the SP:01, an all-electric supercar based on the Lotus Elise. Sounds familiar, right? But Detroit Electric promise it isn’t just a Tesla Motors copycat, and the newly-resurrected company is pledging to have both a pure-electric sedan and hatchback on sale by the end of 2014. The question is…how?

By the time you finish this sentence, you’ll have figured out that there is more than one sentence to my review of the 2012 Kia Rio hatchback. But I wanted to try and do something different, and I think I can boil down the five major aspects of every car review to just a single summary sentence. So lets get down to it, shall we?

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